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Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Nov. 2nd)
Looking for some Sunday reading? Here are some literary links from around the web that you might have missed:
“God save us from novelists who want to create role models:” Time Out interviews Eimear McBride
Deadspin wonders if F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the greatest football innovators
Famous authors like Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan are auctioning character names for charity
A video of George R. R. Martin explaining his dragons, fantasy, and the maps of Westeros
The Telegraph celebrates Dylan Thomas, “a poet who risked everything for his art”
William Gibson says the future will view us “as a joke”
The New Yorker on inventing climate change literature
If you are in NYC, get ready for the Moby-Dick Marathon in two weeks
Jeff VanderMeer talks weird fiction in The Atlantic (read our recent interview with VanderMeer here)
Weird Fiction Review pivots off VanderMeer and lists great weirdo writers from France and Belgium
Bill Cotter on famous authors who hated writing
Claire Armitstead on why Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert is the most seductive villain in literature
